Society for Armenian Studies Podcast

SAS Podcast no. 62 – Elyse Semerdjian

Dr. Elyse Semerdjian (Clark University), Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide (Stanford University, Press, 2023)

Interviewed by Bedros Torosian (University of California, Davis)

[Released September 15, 2025]

SAS Podcast no. 61 – Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor

Dr. Houri Berberian and Dr. Talinn Grigor, The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979 (Stanford University Press, 2025)

Interviewed by Bedros Torosian (University of California, Davis)

[Released August 25, 2025]

SAS Podcast no. 60 – Talar Chahinian

Dr. Talar Chahinian (University of California, Irvine), Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse University Press, 2023)

 

Interviewed by Bedros Torosian (University of California, Davis)

 

[Released July 14, 2025]

SAS Podcast no. 59 – Bedross Der Matossian

Prof. Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century (Stanford University Press, 2022)

Interviewed by Michael Bobelian (Author and Journalist)

[Released June 10, 2022]

SAS Podcast no. 58 – Satenig Batwagan Toufanian

SAS Podcast no. 58 – Satenig Batwagan Toufanian

Prof. Satenig Batwagan Toufanian (Professeur de philosophie chez Ministère chargé de l'Éducation nationale), Rendez-vous à Madras (Ed. Thaddée, 2020) and Dileep Karanth (Illinois Wesleyan University, translator of the novel into English)

Interviewed by Lucine Batwagan  

[Released March 23, 2022]

SAS Podcast no. 57 – Vera Sahakyan

Vera Sahakyan, PhD Student and Researcher at Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts-Madenataran, Մշոյ Բուլանըք գաւառի հայաբնակ գիւղերն ըստ Մկրտիչ Ա. Խրիմեան կաթողիկոսին ուղղուած նամակների [The Armenian Populated Villages of the District of Bulanık in Mush according to the Letters sent to Catholicos Mgrditch A. Khrimian]. Yerevan: Matenadaran, 2021.

Interviewed by Arpik Sahakyan

[Released November 2, 2021]

SAS Podcast no. 56 – Alakananda Nag

Alakananda Nag (Photographer, Filmmaker, Creative Director), Armenians of Calcutta (Calcutta: Alakananda Nag, 2021)

Interviewed by Nareg Seferian (School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech).

[Released September 26, 2021]

SAS Podcast no. 55 – Ümit Kurt

Dr.  Ümit Kurt, The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021).

Interviewed by Varak Ketsemanian (Ph.D. Student, Princeton University).

[Released August 11, 2021]

SAS Podcast no. 54 – Joachim Savelsberg

Prof. Joachim J. Savelsberg, Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2021)

Interviewed by Dr. Asya Darbinyan (Clark University)

[July 1, 2021]

SAS Podcast no. 53 – Christopher Sheklian

Dr. Christopher Sheklian (Radboud University), Themes in Armenian Studies: Armenian Liturgy and the Politics of Belonging in Turkey

Interviewed by Nora Lessersohn (University College London)

[Released June 5, 2021]